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    Default Xband Ontario

    So having travelled around Algonquin Park (60 + 17) twice in th last month and getting countless x band alerts I have to ask can we turn off x band?

    The OPP I encountered were all mobile using I/O K band.

    I think Fantino has updated everything with his black and white cruisers

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    here on hwy 11 all i got is k band C/O...


    x band false from time to time...with my sti


    never encountered a real x band yet

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    Default Re: Xband Ontario

    OPP uses Decatur Genesis K band almost exclusively. There are a very few Decatur Ka band (35.5) now in service--I've seen one in a Highway Ranger OPP cruiser.

    OPP also have Decatur Genesis VP Directional handheld K band units.

    Laser is mostly Lti Ultralyte with some newer Laser Atlanta's out there.

    X band is long-dead in Southern Ontario. However, there has been some talk by members here of seeing X band a few years ago in Northern Ontario (possibly in use by some smaller local cops.) That being said, I would figure the entire OPP fleet province-wide has been updated.

    However, until you're 100% sure there's no X band in your area, I'd leave it on and deal with the falses. (just to be safe.)

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    Thx Jerry ..... Im switching off

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    Default Re: Xband Ontario

    I haven't been up north, read north of Barrie, with mine but I have found no X-band south of Barrie. Mostly just cell tower falses.

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    Thats my problem I get so many tower falses that I'd probably disregard a real alert

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    X band is used up in the Northern region of Ontario. I have a friend who personally saw it being used around North Bay on highway 11. I think he said it was also being used North of North Bay on route 11 also. If you gallybat off the beaten path in Northern Ontario, you better have X band turned on or YOU'LL be sorry!

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    I'd like to know when that was ..Ive been all over that route the last 3 years and nada. Our new OPP police czar spent some dough on the new black and whites and Im betting the x band stuff is gone... in fact I HAVE been betting

    Frankly there are so many x band falses I'd even be suspicious of a correct id
    Last edited by spankyaf; 07-09-2009 at 08:28 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by spankyaf View Post
    I'd like to know when that was ..Ive been all over that route the last 3 years and nada. Our new OPP police czar spent some dough on the new black and whites and Im betting the x band stuff is gone... in fact I HAVE been betting

    Frankly there are so many x band falses I'd even be suspicious of a correct id

    X2. I remember NMA posting that same info 3 or 4 years ago. (no disrepect to NMA, I've met the guy and he's first class all the way!)

    J/

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    i live in that beaten path hwy 11 way north of northbay and no sign of x....

 

 

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